By challenging Ptolemy's geocentric model, this theory states that planets revolve around the sun instead of the Earth
What is Copernican theory / Heliocentrism?
This famous actor at the time fatally shot Abraham Lincoln in 1865 at Ford's theater in Washington D.C.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
Name Alvi's birthday
What is May 6th 2008?
This term in fandom is commonly used when pairing two characters romantically together
What is shipping?
A type of slow-drying paint (taking almost 6 months to fully dry) that consists of particles of pigment suspended in a drying oil, most notably used in the Mona Lisa (1506) and the Starry Night (1889)
What is oil paint?
The largest lobe of the brain primarily focusing on voluntary movement, expressive language and for managing higher level executive functions.
What is the Frontal Lobe?
This battle fought on June 18, 1815 marked the decisive defeat of Napoleon against the Seventh Coalition located, named after the city it was fought in, in United Kingdom of Netherlands at the time
What is Waterloo?
Alvi's instrument in band
What is the euphonium/baritone?
This website temporarily changed the beta label in their logo to an omega for April Fool's and they're notable for hosting fanworks.
What is archive of our own (AO3)?
A Japanese vocaloid software voicebank created by Crypton Future Media. She's stylized as a teenager with two long turquoise pigtails in music videos and as a hologram.
What is Hatsune Miku?
This term is used for the unique temperature & pressure at which a substance can exist as a solid, liquid, and gas in equilibrium?
What is triple point?
This legendary Greek philosopher, authored the "Nicomachean Ethics," and also the tutor of Macedonian king Alexander the Great when the latter was a teenager?
What is Aristotle?
What is a fear of escalators, escalaphobia?
As a warning to take all tags for dark and sensitive content seriously, especially when the story doesn't explicitly condemn reprehensive content, users typically use this tag
Dead Dove: Do Not Eat
Which Anime won the best Crunchyroll Best Animation Award for the movie Infinity Castle this year?
What is Demon Slayer: Kimestu No Yaiba ?
From the words meaning "ancient" & "recent", it was the epoch immediately following the dinosaurs' extinction
What is Paleocene
What dynasty ruled during the Confucius time in China?
What is Zhou?
Alvi's favorite modern (currently alive) philosopher
"A Fragment Out of Time" by Diane Marchant is considered the published first slash work for this well-known series that popularized the slash subgenre in the early 70s
What is Star Trek?
The painter of this piece is best known for blending art nouveau and art deco in bold, high contrast styles with visible strokes.
Who is J.C. Leyendecker?
This technique utilizes Eddy diffusion and resistance to mass transfer terms calculate the height of a theoretical plate by the van Deemter equation. The time between injection and the maximum of a peak in this technique is the retention time, which measures how fast elution occurs. Alumina and silica gel are often used in this technique’s “thin-layer” form as a stationary phase.
What is Chromatography?
This is the name of the Chinese anti-foreigner rebellion led by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists from 1898 to 1901, born from the resentment of Western society's "spheres of influence" during the Open Door Policy and Unequal Treaties.
What is the Boxer's Rebellion?
Favorite seed to snack on
What is Cumin Seeds?
This author sent cease and desist notices to fanfiction websites (VC Archive Spec) and specific fanfic authors through her lawyers in 2001, commonly cited for a factor that spurred the creation of Ao3
What is Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles series?
This movie is Quentin Tarantino's big break in 1992, focusing on the aftermath of the bank heist?
What is Reservoir Dogs?